Class ASCIIFoldingFilter

All Implemented Interfaces:
Closeable, AutoCloseable, Unwrappable<TokenStream>

public final class ASCIIFoldingFilter extends TokenFilter
This class converts alphabetic, numeric, and symbolic Unicode characters which are not in the first 127 ASCII characters (the "Basic Latin" Unicode block) into their ASCII equivalents, if one exists.

Characters from the following Unicode blocks are converted; however, only those characters with reasonable ASCII alternatives are converted:

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_characters_in_Unicode

For example, 'à' will be replaced by 'a'.

  • Constructor Details

    • ASCIIFoldingFilter

      public ASCIIFoldingFilter(TokenStream input)
    • ASCIIFoldingFilter

      public ASCIIFoldingFilter(TokenStream input, boolean preserveOriginal)
      Create a new ASCIIFoldingFilter.
      Parameters:
      input - TokenStream to filter
      preserveOriginal - should the original tokens be kept on the input stream with a 0 position increment from the folded tokens?
  • Method Details

    • isPreserveOriginal

      public boolean isPreserveOriginal()
      Does the filter preserve the original tokens?
    • incrementToken

      public boolean incrementToken() throws IOException
      Specified by:
      incrementToken in class TokenStream
      Throws:
      IOException
    • reset

      public void reset() throws IOException
      Overrides:
      reset in class TokenFilter
      Throws:
      IOException
    • foldToASCII

      public void foldToASCII(char[] input, int length)
      Converts characters above ASCII to their ASCII equivalents. For example, accents are removed from accented characters.
      Parameters:
      input - The string to fold
      length - The number of characters in the input string
    • foldToASCII

      public static final int foldToASCII(char[] input, int inputPos, char[] output, int outputPos, int length)
      Converts characters above ASCII to their ASCII equivalents. For example, accents are removed from accented characters.
      Parameters:
      input - The characters to fold
      inputPos - Index of the first character to fold
      output - The result of the folding. Should be of size >= length * 4.
      outputPos - Index of output where to put the result of the folding
      length - The number of characters to fold
      Returns:
      length of output
      NOTE: This API is for internal purposes only and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.